“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work. . . Every aristocrat was a traitor. . . For two hundred years now the people had sweated, and toiled, and starved to keep a lustful court in lavish extravagance; now the descendants of those who had helped to make these courts brilliant had to hide for their lives.”



Which event is referred to in this passage?



Responses



The Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror



The Tennis Court Oath

The Tennis Court Oath



The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen



The Storming of the Bastille